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Gangplank [E] Mechanics: Should they be made easier?

Agent Corgi··2 votes·1,321 views

I had just finished a game of GangplankGangplank & I decided to Invest more time into learning him. Turns out there was a time where Gangplank's [E]: Powder Keg had a few mechanics I had not previously known about in the past. In this case, it's Igniting a Barrel & quickly planting a 2nd Barrel nearby to perform a Fast-paced Combo (can be deemed unavoidable if done right). If Alistar'sAlistar [W] --> [Q] combo can be shifted around & made easier to perform, then why can't this be made just a tad easier? Back in Patch 5.17, they implemented a Delay in cast times between Barrels, at 0.25 seconds. As it stands right now, this Barrel Mechanic can still be done today, only it's extremely hard to pull off (I became accustomed to Quick-casting over time. Only champion I play with Quick Casting turned off now a days is BardBard , mainly so I can see how far my [E]: Magical Journey can take my team.) & I wouldn't dare try this in Normal games.

7 Comments

Boulderox4 votes

yea lets give the champ that can take half your hp with one barrel an easier time doing the deed?

MunchCrunchLunch1 votes

if your a tank. if your not 75-100%

Unpaladin1 votes

By the time you're doing half of someone's health in one barrel, he would be level 13 and this trick would be useless.

Unpaladin2 votes

This would be pretty great if Riot could pull it off in a way that doesn't harm Gangplank. That barrel deployment nerf was quite unfortunate in how it stopped this type of thing.

I believe the only way you can do that now is by already having two barrels out and firing at the furthest possible point away from one of those barrels, and then deploying a barrel as soon as possible. Note that this is highly punishing with the "GP has 3 barrels now fuck you" nerf he had.

ZeeWolfZ2 votes

GP need 4 Barrels and faster barrel load earlier than level 13.

Mysticman891 votes

Ali's combo was made easier since there was a fairly significant difference in game impact between an ali who could do the combo and an ali who couldn't, and it was hard to balance around both.

With GP's EQE, it's almost functionally identical to EEQ which is easy to do, so I doubt it'll be tweaked to be made easier, and left as a high level mechanic for people who really want to milk that extra fraction of a second.

IamJJok3R1 votes

Yeah because we want this game to be as easy as possible.....some champs should be easy and some should be hard. Just depends on how riot wants them to be used.

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